History VideoGame / AviaryAttorney

Developed by newly-formed British team Sketchy Logic, ''Aviary Attorney'' was funded by a 2014-15 Website/{{Kickstarter}} campaign and released on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} in December 2015.

->''"It's like [[Franchise/AceAttorney Phoenix Wright]] if Phoenix was a kind of bird.\\
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* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Discussed when Sparrowson confuses the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel for its more famous sister, the Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile:

** To a lesser extent, [[spoiler: Jayjay Falcon himself is identified as the grandson of UsefulNotes/MaximilienRobespierre.]]

* SurprisinglyRealsticOutcome:

* NotSoDifferent: While never remarked on in-game, [[spoiler: both Inspector Volerti and the masterminds Romulus and Remus use Severin Cocorico as a pawn to try and make someone embrace their murderous side]].

* FamousLastWords: In the lead-up to ending 4A, [[spoiler:Cocorico]] tells his killer, "Just pull the trigger and be done with it."

''Aviary Attorney'' is an AdventureGame about 19th-century Parisian lawyers…who happen to be [[WorldOfFunnyAnimals birds]]. The game's art is based on the lithographs of 19th-century French artist [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Ignace_Isidore_Gerard_Grandville J.J. Grandville]], who was known for his caricatures of anthropomorphic animals. The soundtrack consists of music by Camille Saint-Saëns and some of his contemporaries (including Georges Bizet and Charles Gounod), prominently featuring several selections from ''Carnival of the Animals.''

* AnachronismStew: Trouvé's explorer-extractor device is actually a real thing. Except that it was invented decades after the events of the game, in 1874.

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Discussed when Sparrowson confuses the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel for its more famous sister, the Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile:

* BigBad: Leonie Beaumont, the RebelLeader and final prosecutor. Aside from her, there is also mention of the mysterious Viridian Killer. [[spoiler:The Viridian Killer is actually ''[[CollectiveIdentity two people]]'', [[HangingJudge Judge Romulus and Frère Remus]], and they’re [[TheManInFrontOfTheMan manipulating]] [[DiscOneFinalBoss Beaumont]] to seize power for themselves.]] There’s also [[spoiler:Dame Caterline Demiaou, who is actually the culprit of the first case. She and the Viridian Killers are the game’s only culprits]].

* ButThouMust: Mostly averted. Unlike in ''Franchise/AceAttorney'', for instance, time keeps moving forward regardless of whether you've seen every scene or picked up every item. In fact, it's possible to avoid getting certain key pieces of evidence, though you can usually progress through the game anyway. Played straight in the first case, however, where you can't leave Château Crinière without going to all the rooms [[spoiler: and picking up all the evidence you need, which you will get no matter what you choose in the conversations. In fact, you have to try pretty hard to lose the first case]].
* ChainOfDeals: Falcon and Jayjay do this to help Trouvé complete his invention. Or you can just fork over some cash and buy the items you need, however they will be fairly expensive. Whichever you decide to do, Trouvé will wonder why you did all that work/spent all that money when there was a store just down the street from his workshop selling the items for cheap. Falcon is not amused.

* {{Expy}}: Séverin Cocorico, the pompous rooster prosecutor and old acquaintance of Falcon's who enjoys belittling him, parallels [[Franchise/AceAttorney Miles Edgeworth]] in several ways.

* GoldenEnding: [[spoiler:4B, "Égalité". The king escapes, the conspirators are the only casualties of the revolution, and their plot to turn it violent is foiled. Cocorico and Volerti vow to make up for their past misdeeds, and Beaumort plays an important part in the Second Republic. Paris is at peace, for now.]]

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Louis Philippe, the king of France, appears in the game (as a penguin), as does his prime minister François Guizot (who looks like a vulture of some sort).
** In addition, French inventor [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Trouvé Gustave Trouvé]] appears in the game (as a breed of dog), [[spoiler:and one of his inventions ends up being a key piece of evidence in the third trial.]]

** The theme of Juste Volerti, the police inspector, comes from the ''Symphonie Funèbre et Triomphale'' by Berlioz.

** Léonie Beaumort's theme is the "Libera me" from the Fauré Requiem.

** Trial scenes have background music based on the Bacchanale from Saint-Saëns' ''Samson and Delilah''.
* MeaningfulEcho: In Act 4A, you return to the garden of Château Crinière. Sparrowson makes horse puns when you investigate the horse statues, just like he did the first time. [[spoiler: Except that this time, Falcon isn't there…]]

* MultipleEndings: Depending on your choices in Act 3, you can play one of three completely different chapter 4s, aptly named after France's national motto: "4A (Liberté)", "4B (Égalité)", or "4C (Fraternité)".

* SpeciesSurname: Not ''every'' character, but plenty of them. We've got Catherine-Marie Cygne the swan, Reynard Vulpes the fox, Monsieur Grenwee (sounds like ''grenouille'') the frog, and the title character Jayjay Falcon [[spoiler: (though he changed his name from "Robespierre")]]. Other characters' names are based on, but not identical to, their species names: Eric Porc the porcupine, Rupert Rabbington the rabbit, and Sparrowson the…sparrow. Then there's Séverin [[{{Onomatopoeia}} Cocorico]] the rooster, and the Demiaou family (who are cats).

* TheStoic: Cocorico, who makes fun of Falcon at one point for not being able to put up a "stoic façade" to hide his nervousness in court. [[spoiler: And when he's captured by the rebels, Cocorico refuses to speak -- even under torture -- for many hours. The rebels don't even know his name until after Falcon and Sparrowson show up.]]

* ThanatosGambit: In Act 4C, [[spoiler: Remus]] talks Officer Beck into firing on the crowd if he hears a gunshot so that the revolution will turn bloody regardless of whether [[spoiler: [[XanatosGambit Beaumort kills Inspector Volerti or she kills him for having set her up]]]]. And if neither happens, [[spoiler: ''he shoots himself'' to ensure the same outcome]].

''Aviary Attorney'' is an AdventureGame about 19th-century Parisian lawyers…who happen to be [[WorldOfFunnyAnimals birds]]. The game's art is based on the lithographs of 19th-century French artist [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Ignace_Isidore_Gerard_Grandville J.J. Grandville]], who was known for his caricatures of anthropomorphic animals. The soundtrack consists of music by Camille Saint-Saëns and some of his contemporaries (including Georges Bizet and Charles Gounod), prominently featuring several selections from ''Carnival of the Animals.''

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* AnachronismStew: Trouvé's explorer-extractor device is actually a real thing. Except that it was invented decades after the events of the game, in 1874.

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Discussed when Sparrowson confuses the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel for its more famous sister, the Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile:

* BigBad: Leonie Beaumont, the RebelLeader and final prosecutor. Aside from her, there is also mention of the mysterious Viridian Killer. [[spoiler:The Viridian Killer is actually ''[[CollectiveIdentity two people]]'', [[HangingJudge Judge Romulus and Frère Remus]], and they’re [[TheManInFrontOfTheMan manipulating]] [[DiscOneFinalBoss Beaumont]] to seize power for themselves.]] There’s also [[spoiler:Dame Caterline Demiaou, who is actually the culprit of the first case. She and the Viridian Killers are the game’s only culprits]].

* ButThouMust: Mostly averted. Unlike in ''Franchise/AceAttorney'', for instance, time keeps moving forward regardless of whether you've seen every scene or picked up every item. In fact, it's possible to avoid getting certain key pieces of evidence, though you can usually progress through the game anyway. Played straight in the first case, however, where you can't leave Château Crinière without going to all the rooms [[spoiler: and picking up all the evidence you need, which you will get no matter what you choose in the conversations. In fact, you have to try pretty hard to lose the first case]].
* ChainOfDeals: Falcon and Jayjay do this to help Trouvé complete his invention. Or you can just fork over some cash and buy the items you need, however they will be fairly expensive. Whichever you decide to do, Trouvé will wonder why you did all that work/spent all that money when there was a store just down the street from his workshop selling the items for cheap. Falcon is not amused.

* {{Expy}}: Séverin Cocorico, the pompous rooster prosecutor and old acquaintance of Falcon's who enjoys belittling him, parallels [[Franchise/AceAttorney Miles Edgeworth]] in several ways.

* GoldenEnding: [[spoiler:4B, "Égalité". The king escapes, the conspirators are the only casualties of the revolution, and their plot to turn it violent is foiled. Cocorico and Volerti vow to make up for their past misdeeds, and Beaumort plays an important part in the Second Republic. Paris is at peace, for now.]]

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Louis Philippe, the king of France, appears in the game (as a penguin), as does his prime minister François Guizot (who looks like a vulture of some sort).
** In addition, French inventor [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Trouvé Gustave Trouvé]] appears in the game (as a breed of dog), [[spoiler:and one of his inventions ends up being a key piece of evidence in the third trial.]]

** The theme of Juste Volerti, the police inspector, comes from the ''Symphonie Funèbre et Triomphale'' by Berlioz.

** Léonie Beaumort's theme is the "Libera me" from the Fauré Requiem.

** Trial scenes have background music based on the Bacchanale from Saint-Saëns' ''Samson and Delilah''.
* MeaningfulEcho: In Act 4A, you return to the garden of Château Crinière. Sparrowson makes horse puns when you investigate the horse statues, just like he did the first time. [[spoiler: Except that this time, Falcon isn't there…]]

* MultipleEndings: Depending on your choices in Act 3, you can play one of three completely different chapter 4s, aptly named after France's national motto: "4A (Liberté)", "4B (Égalité)", or "4C (Fraternité)".

* SpeciesSurname: Not ''every'' character, but plenty of them. We've got Catherine-Marie Cygne the swan, Reynard Vulpes the fox, Monsieur Grenwee (sounds like ''grenouille'') the frog, and the title character Jayjay Falcon [[spoiler: (though he changed his name from "Robespierre")]]. Other characters' names are based on, but not identical to, their species names: Eric Porc the porcupine, Rupert Rabbington the rabbit, and Sparrowson the…sparrow. Then there's Séverin [[{{Onomatopoeia}} Cocorico]] the rooster, and the Demiaou family (who are cats).

* TheStoic: Cocorico, who makes fun of Falcon at one point for not being able to put up a "stoic façade" to hide his nervousness in court. [[spoiler: And when he's captured by the rebels, Cocorico refuses to speak -- even under torture -- for many hours. The rebels don't even know his name until after Falcon and Sparrowson show up.]]

Gameplay is similar to that of the ''VideoGame/AceAttorney'' series: you guide defense attorney Jayjay Falcon and his assistant Sparrowson through investigations of crime scenes and conversations with witnesses, gathering evidence that you can use while cross-examining witnesses in a trial phase.

* ButThouMust: Mostly averted. Unlike in ''VideoGame/AceAttorney'', for instance, time keeps moving forward regardless of whether you've seen every scene or picked up every item. In fact, it's possible to avoid getting certain key pieces of evidence, though you can usually progress through the game anyway. Played straight in the first case, however, where you can't leave Château Crinière without going to all the rooms [[spoiler: and picking up all the evidence you need, which you will get no matter what you choose in the conversations. In fact, you have to try pretty hard to lose the first case]].

* {{Expy}}: Séverin Cocorico, the pompous rooster prosecutor and old acquaintance of Falcon's who enjoys belittling him, parallels [[Characters/AceAttorneyProsecutorsAndJudges Miles Edgeworth]] in several ways.

* ThePerryMasonMethod: Played with. [[spoiler: The first act plays out like a typical ''VideoGame/AceAttorney'' case, except that you find out afterwards -- despite all the clues clicking neatly into place, and an antagonistic figure incriminating himself in a fit of anger -- that your client really ''was'' the murderer all along. In the second act, it turns out that the judge is responsible. And in the third act, Falcon is almost right when he bets that the real murderer is somewhere in the room -- the murderer is, in fact, right outside.]]

** To a certain RunningGag from the ''VideoGame/AceAttorney'' series:

* WholePlotReference: To one of the cases in the first ''VideoGame/AceAttorney'' game, in the latter part of Act 3 [[spoiler: : you're defending a prosecutor, your rival, who's been framed for shooting someone, against a prosecutor who's controlling the entire flow of the trial. You even get to cross-examine a parrot, though [[FunnyAnimal it's much less surprising in this case]]]]. The resolution of the case scores extra similarity points [[spoiler: when the murderer is unmasked because there's a bullet in his shoulder, which is revealed by a metal detector]]. However, the particular details of the case still manage to be fairly different [[spoiler: from ''Turnabout Goodbyes'']].

* WholePlotReference: To one of the cases in the first ''VideoGame/AceAttorney'' game, in the latter part of Act 3 [[spoiler: : you're defending a prosecutor, your rival, who's been framed for shooting someone, against a prosecutor who's controlling the entire flow of the trial. You even get to cross-examine a parrot, though [[PettingZooPeople it's much less surprising in this case]]]]. The resolution of the case scores extra similarity points [[spoiler: when the murderer is unmasked because there's a bullet in his shoulder, which is revealed by a metal detector]]. However, the particular details of the case still manage to be fairly different [[spoiler: from ''Turnabout Goodbyes'']].

* PettingZooPeople: As in Grandville's art, most of the characters have animal heads on human bodies (most notably including human hands and feet). However cats are mentioned as having sharp claws, tailfeathers come up, and both the victim and the defendant of the first case, when shown full-body, look like a barely humanized frog and housecat respectively.

Developed by newly-formed British team Sketchy Logic, ''Aviary Attorney'' was funded by a 2014-15 Kickstarter campaign and released on Steam in December 2015.

* FramingTheGuiltyParty: Of the Framing Yourself variety. [[spoiler: Renard Vulpes disguises himself as a Spanish prince and makes it look like he attempted to murder the king in order to save Cygne, who was forced into the assassination attempt by Judge Romulus.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: When Inspector Volerti mentions the Viridian Killer during the first case, it's easy assume he's simply rambling irrelevant details when he's supposed to be testifying. Turns out the mystery of the Viridian Killer's identity plays a huge role in the latter half of the game. [[spoiler: The fact that Romulus and Remus write with green ink is also a subtle clue to the fact that ''they'' were the Viridian Killer.]]

* BigBad: Leonie Beaumont, the RebelLeader. Aside from her, there is also mention of the mysterious Viridian Killer. [[spoiler:The Viridian Killer is actually ''[[CollectiveIdentity two people]]'', Romulus and Remus, and they’re [[TheManInFrontOfTheMan manipulating]] [[DiscOneFinalBoss Beaumont]] to seize power for themselves.]] There’s also [[spoiler:Dame Caterline Demiaou, who is actually the culprit of the first case. She and the Viridian Killers are the game’s only culprits]].

->''"It's like Phoenix Wright if Phoenix was a kind of bird.\\

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Discussed when Sparrowson confuses the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel for its more famous sister the Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile:

-->''Falcon'': ...when a man like Napoleon invades half of Europe, he gets to build as many triumphal arches as he damn well pleases.

* PlayerNudge: If you run out of investigative time in Act 3 and don't have all the evidence you need to [[spoiler: save Cocorico from the rebels]], before you head to the catacombs, Falcon will have the gut feeling that he's either dead or beyond help. He's right: you can continue, but you can't save him and therefore you're locked out of the good ending. If you have all you need to find him Not Guilty, he'll instead say that [[BigDamnHeroes it's about time to go rescue him]].

* PlayerNudge: If you don't have all the evidence you need to [spoiler: save Cocorico from the rebels]], before you head to the catacombs, Falcon will have the gut feeling that he's either dead or beyond help. He's right: you can continue, but you can't save him and therefore you're locked out of the good ending. If you have all you need to find him Not Guilty, he'll instead say that [[BigDamnHeroes it's about time to go rescue him]].